Bug#924704: bumblebee-nvidia: nvidia-driver 410 doesn't appear to allow the unloading of the nvidia module

[Danfun360]

The graphics card in my laptop is an Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050.

On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 7:20 AM Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> What Nvidia card does your laptop have?
>
> On Sat, 16 Mar 2019, 03:42 Daniel O. <danfun360 at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Package: bumblebee-nvidia
>> Version: 3.2.1-20
>> Severity: grave
>> Justification: renders package unusable
>>
>> Dear Maintainer, I write this bug report because this bumblebee/bumblebeed
>> doesn't work as it should.
>>
>>    * What led up to the situation? Bumblebee used to work correctly when
>> the
>> nvidia driver was at 390. A few days ago it was upgraded to 410. At the
>> time I
>> was running Debian Buster (testing as of this writing). That's where
>> things
>> started to get problematic. It appears that the nvidia module couldn't be
>> unloaded or something. bbswitch reported as "ON" without optirun, and as
>> the
>> nvidia drivers were considered in use, I was unable to unbind the nvidia
>> driver
>> for VGA Passthrough as I had been doing before.
>>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>>      ineffective)? I uninstalled every bumblebee and nvidia package. I
>> then
>> reinstalled everything. No luck. I then uninstalled everything and went
>> for the
>> legacy 390 package. Unfortunately there were problems with that:
>> nvidia-cuba-
>> toolkit and nvidia-cuba-dev require the latest nvidia driver installed.
>> On top
>> of that, bumblebee refused to see the legacy 390 drivers as a glx
>> alternative.
>> I uninstalled all the nvidia stuff again, switched to Debian Sid, and
>> installed
>> the latest nvidia drivers again (they were slightly more up to date on
>> Sid than
>> in Buster). Still no change.
>>    * What was the outcome of this action? Bumblebee should be able to
>> blacklist
>> the nvidia driver and isolate it from the operating system in such a way
>> that
>> the system would run on the integrated GPU and run the discrete GPU for
>> applications when called for.
>>    * What outcome did you expect instead? The nvidia driver is not
>> blacklisted,
>> and the discrete GPU is in control.
>>
>> On a different note, I tried posting a bug report upstream. It has some
>> information this report might not have (vice versa is definitely the case,
>> unfortunately). It can be found at https://github.com/Bumblebee-
>> Project/Bumblebee/issues/1023
>>
>>
>>
>> -- System Information:
>> Debian Release: buster/sid
>>   APT prefers unstable
>>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
>> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>> Foreign Architectures: i386
>>
>> Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
>> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
>> TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
>> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
>> LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
>> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>>
>> Versions of packages bumblebee-nvidia depends on:
>> ii  bumblebee               3.2.1-20
>> ii  glx-alternative-nvidia  0.9.1
>> ii  nvidia-driver           410.104-1
>> ii  nvidia-kernel-dkms      410.104-1
>>
>> bumblebee-nvidia recommends no packages.
>>
>> bumblebee-nvidia suggests no packages.
>>
>> -- no debconf information
>>
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